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Understanding 9/11Nautical chart of the Pacific coast of Mexico, Baja California, and the Gulf of California
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Nautical chart of the Pacific coast of Mexico, Baja California, and the Gulf of California
- Publication date
- 1770
- Topics
- Mapping Movement, European Maps for Exploration and Discovery, Maps, Mexico--Pacific Coast, Mexico--California, Gulf of
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Engraved facsimile of 1541 manuscript previously in possesion of the heirs of Hernan Cortés in Mexico City, but now lost. Cf. Wagner.
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Summarizes Spanish colonial knowledge of California as a peninsula (not an island). Derived from Castillo's work as a ship's pilot during two exploring expeditions commissioned by Cortés and led by Hernando de Alarcón and Francisco de Ulloa between 1538 and1540. Cf. Wagner.
"Este mapa esta sacado de el original que para en el Estado de el Marques de el Valle [Hernan Cortés]. Enlo alto pone una ciudad que entonzes o por relaciones se creio cierta i la llamaron Quivira. En la desembocadura del Rio Colorado enel Golfo de Californias pone dos rios el uno le llama de Buena Guia, i puede ser el Colorado el otro de Miraflores, ipuede ser el Gila que incorporados en una Madre entran en el Seno de Californias."
Title supplied by cataloger.
Summarizes Spanish colonial knowledge of California as a peninsula (not an island). Derived from Castillo's work as a ship's pilot during two exploring expeditions commissioned by Cortés and led by Hernando de Alarcón and Francisco de Ulloa between 1538 and1540. Cf. Wagner.
"Este mapa esta sacado de el original que para en el Estado de el Marques de el Valle [Hernan Cortés]. Enlo alto pone una ciudad que entonzes o por relaciones se creio cierta i la llamaron Quivira. En la desembocadura del Rio Colorado enel Golfo de Californias pone dos rios el uno le llama de Buena Guia, i puede ser el Colorado el otro de Miraflores, ipuede ser el Gila que incorporados en una Madre entran en el Seno de Californias."
Notes
Featured in the essay "European Maps for Exploration and Discovery" at Mapping Movement in American History and Culture.
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